Charm has no effect on the wolf leaders of the Nations,
Obama’s a Proud Educated Lamb Dialoging with Wolves!
Obama is a novice lifted up with pride in his own Intellect!
Obama Seems to have NO Long Range Strategy to Deal with Iran,
At least that is the impression I get from reading Excerpt Number 2,
After reading Excerpt Nr. 1 – Is there a strategy for Syria & Hizbullah?
April 19, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
I Timothy 3:6 – Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
If the pastor of a local church is supposed to meet the qualification of not being a novice, then surely it is not wise to elect a man to the office of President of the U.S. if he has no experience other than briefly holding a Senate seat.
Begin Excerpt 1 from DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
The “New Hizballah” built by Syria sparks ME summer war fear
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
April 18, 2010, 5:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose that Syria has expanded the flow of smuggled Syrian and Iranian weaponry across the Lebanese border to Hizballah in line with a master-plan charted in Tehran and Damascus for transforming the 25,000-strong Hizballah terrorist militia into an organized, mobile army with a whole range of sophisticated missiles and other weapons. The new Hizballah is being trained to carry out such offensive operations as capturing parts of Israel’s Galilee and equipped with the hardware for knocking out warplanes, warships and armored strength.
One of their missions will be to defend the Syrian capital, Damascus. Tehran and Damascus calculate that the next time a war erupts on Israel’s borders, its army will try and outflank Syrian forces on the Golan and drive past the units defending Damascus.
That is where Hizballah is expected to come in.
Even after the Kuwaiti Al Rai claim that Syria had smuggled Scud ground missiles into Lebanon proved inaccurate and was denied in Washington, regional war tensions remained high – although not for the reason ascribed by Jordan’s King Abdullah during his current visit to Washington.
The king forecast an outbreak of Middle East hostilities in the coming summer because of the Israel-Palestinian diplomatic stalemate. What’s the connection? Our sources ask. Rather than admit he is nervously watching his aggressive Arab neighbor to the north, the Jordanian ruler is pinning the region’s troubles on Israel because it is the right tune to sing in Barack Obama’s Washington.
In actual fact, a Middle East war this summer depends on two actions which have nothing to do with the Palestinians: a decision by the US and/or Israel to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities together or separately, and a decision in Tehran to unleash its allies against Israel – spearheaded by Hizballah – to preempt such an attack.
Ready to step into its new shoes, Hizballah is being armed with five major military capabilities, DEBKAfile reports:
1. Surface-to-surface missiles able to reach as far as the Dimona reactor in southern Israel: They include Fajr-5, which has a range of 33 km, and the M-600, developed by Syria from the Fateh-110, whose range is 250 km. Both are precise, propelled by solid fuel and carry 500-kilo warheads of conventional explosives, as well as being able to deliver chemical, biological and radioactive materials.
This dangerous new arsenal which tops up the 40,000 rockets Hizballah was allowed to pile up since the 2006 Lebanon war.
Saturday, April 17, Israel’s deputy defense minister Mattan Vilnai, warned that Syria and Hizballah between them had ballistic missiles that could reach every millimeter of Israeli territory.
But he did not explain how the national defense leadership, of which he is a senior member, allowed this to happen.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said nothing to account for his 14-month old government’s failure to make good on its pledges for change, and first of all to deal with the Iranian nuclear threat. Instead, he follows his predecessors’ same old passive routines on Iran, Syria and Hizballah, an open invitation to aggression and a recipe for armed conflict.
Of late, he is hardly to be seen or heard except for the irrelevant comments he makes at state ceremonies.
2. Iran has built for Hizballah five expanded commando brigades whose mission in a future conflict will be to capture and hold key northern Israeli towns and villages, including the town of Nahariya or parts thereof. This tactic would force Israeli forces marching into Lebanon to turn back and recover lost land.
On March 28, DEBKAfile revealed this Iranian-Syrian master plan in detail.
3. Syrian instructors are training Hizballah militiamen at top speed in the operation of ground-to-air weapons, including self-propelled missiles, against warplanes and incoming missiles and cruise missiles. Israel has threatened to destroy these batteries if they cross the border into Lebanon. They are therefore being held back in Syrian bases up against the border until such time as fighting flares.
They will then be transferred into the hands of Hizballah units standing by on the Lebanese side of the border.
4. Syria has set up a Hizballah special unit for attacking warships and fighting off Israeli coastal landings. It is equipped with advanced Chinese SS-26 Yakhont marine cruise missiles, which combine assault features with the ability to intercept attacking missiles or cruise missiles.
5. Iranian and Syrian military engineers have constructed fortified anti-tank lines in many parts of Lebanon. They are linked by fast highways, to be closed to all traffic barring Hizballah units in an emergency, and
by a military-grade communications network.
Begin Excerpt 2 from Arutz Sheva
Obama Faces Iran ‘Wake-up Call’ from Defense Secretary Gates
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates sent President Barack Obama in January a secret “wake-up” call warning of lack of strategy to deal with an Iranian nuclear threat, The New York Times reported Saturday.
The White House has denied the charges, and the Defense Secretary’s spokesman issued a non-committal statement: “The secretary believes the president and his national security team have spent an extraordinary amount of time and effort considering and preparing for the full range of contingencies with respect to Iran.”
The memo warned President Obama that his administration had no long-term strategy to deal with the growing inevitability that the Islamic Republic will be able to produce a nuclear weapon.
He suggested that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might adopt a tactic of being a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty while having at hand all of the available parts to assemble a nuclear weapon for a warhead, which presumably would be aimed at Israel.
Defense Secretary Gates last week stated on American television, “If their (Iran’s) policy is to go to the threshold but not assemble a nuclear weapon, how do you tell that they have not assembled? I don’t actually know how you would verify that.”
Aides to the president defended the administration, stating that it has been planning several scenarios to deal with Iran’s nuclear program.
Last week, President Obama concentrated on the threat that Al-Qaeda terrorists may gain access to a nuclear weapon. His strategy has been to “engage” Iran in diplomatic talks and, if necessary, place crippling economic sanctions against it. However, a 2009 “deadline” for Iran to respond to diplomatic engagement passed without a strong American reaction, except for rhetoric.
President Obama’s advisors then unsuccessfully tried to scare the international community into backing harsh sanctions by revealing that Iran was building a new uranium enrichment plant.
His latest effort was to attract China to attend a “nuclear summit” where optimistic statements were issued without reference to intense opposition from Beijing. It is dependent on Iranian oil, has worked with Iran on its nuclear program and also is against gas and oil sanctions that might stop Irans’ nuclear development in its tracks.
Despite Secretary Gates “wake-up” memo, he stated as far back as last May that bombing Iran might delay Iran from gaining nuclear capability but would not stop it. “Even a military attack will only buy us time and send the program deeper and more covert,” he told the Senate Appropriations Committee. He previously said that bombing Iran would “create generations of jihadists.”
However, he h as not issued
a clear-cut strategy on how to deal with Iran other than the same measures President Obama has suggested. Two years ago, Secetary Gates stated, “We need to figure out a way to develop some leverage . . . and then sit down and talk with them. My personal view would be we ought to look for ways outside of government to open up the channels and get more of a flow of people back and forth. We ought to increase the flow the other way . . . of Americans visiting Iran.” (IsraelNationalNews.com)
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